MASSIVE Greco blade failure

Temper said:
I drove my car at 200MPH into a brick wall and the headlight broke, I shouldn't have done it, but I'm leary of plastic lights now.

You said yourself that you shouldn't have done what you did to the knife (FYI Knives are for cutting with) then you post about it like its some kind of revelation? Are you on Crack?

Sorry to be the party pooper here, but JFC what did you expect to happen if you grossly abuse something?
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DID YOU EVEN READ THE THREAD? :mad:
 
Lavan,

What uses would you have for a beater or unbroken Greco Scagel repro? Not too many stainless steels will behave like your Fallkniven U2, but if you don't need that type of steel or profile in a fixed blade, maybe something from Blackjack or Cold Steel would work well. They both make some nice fixed blades in AUS-8A and Blackjack has a few in AUS-10. Spyderco has some nice hunting and utility blades made in VG-10, as does Fallkniven.
 
I gotta agree with Temper, you loose YOUR cool and fling a knife across the room?????, :confused: buddy, do yourself and your local PD a favor and don't fool with any weapons. :(
 
Walking Man said:
DID YOU EVEN READ THE THREAD? :mad:
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Perhaps he does not accept the opinion that the knife was defective and accepts the statement of the author of this thread that he abused the knife.
 
Miketm.... Did I leave anything out? Did you miss where I posted that I...knew... I misused the knife?

I'm glad to hear that you never lose your temper. Perhaps you could share your secret.

You know nothing about WHERE the knife was thrown and believe me, no one (including myself) could by the wildest stretch be even ..... t o u c h e d....by any part of it.

Thanks, however, for the advice based on minimal information.

:D :D :D
 
Not that this needs to continue, but you throwing anything due to your anger level, is what we call an inability to cope properly.
 
I would think that Mr. Greco would like to see how the knife failed. Contact him and tell him what happened.
 
See post #17 this thread. I sent the pic to John. He has offered a discount on a new Scagel repro, but not against a ....different.... style. He said that this was the weak point on this knife. I am now decided that I am gonna forget about it and go on to a different (and probably stainless) knife.

Live and learn. That's what life is anyhow.

:)
 
Stainless will be more brittle than a carbon steel blade of equivalent hardness. Was your blade made from the 8670 saw blade alloy which should be real tough or was it one of the older ones made from A2? A2 is tougher than D2, but is not in the same class as simple carbon steel or saw blade alloys.

If serious toughness is what you are after you could look for a laminated blade. You could pick either stainless or carbon steel laminated blades and never have to worry about breaking one. You could find a relatively traditional design through Ragweed Forge.
 
Jeff, it was the 8670. I am just about positive that it is the design and to tell the truth, it always sorta concerned me just looking at it as the tang to blade ratio was very thick in section and sorta shallow in depth. And VERY square. Just like a classic stress riser. I abused the heck out of the knife and I'm just going to chalk it up to experience and not do such stuff again.

However, I still think that either a ...very... slight rounding at that juncture would have let it survive the ...WHANG! And a deeper and possibly thinner blade section would, I'm sure, not do that.

I had a knife when I was a kid that I threw, stabbed, tossed, hammered with, used as a screwdriver, and even (don't tell my dead mother) ...DUELED...with. You could NOT break it! It sorta looked like a "cowboy bowie" with gutta percha scales and a pressed on guard and the absolute simplest of steels. Wish I still had it.

:)
 
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